Hi I don't want to panic but I just downloaded Adobe Premiere CC and it's telling me that I've rendered my previous project with a 3rd party plugin that isn't available. What is the process of installing my 3rd party plugins to premiere so I can edit with Blackmagic codecs, Cineform, and multiple others I have enjoyed using in CS6.

Blackmagic has a new release with updated plug-ins (transmit, capture, device control, etc) for Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Go to their website, Support section, and choose your product. From their release notes:

What's new in Desktop Video 9.7.5

• Support for Adobe Premiere Pro CC

• Support for Adobe After Effects CC

• Support for Adobe Photoshop CC

• Support for UltraStudio 4K

Just as the move from CS5.5 to CS6 used a different installation folder and different plug-in folder, PPro CC uses a new plug-in folder. There are also new capabilities for plug-ins like those from Blackmagic, so you'll want to be working with the latest!

Hi Ann did you copy them to Program Files or Program Files (x86) folder? I have a PC Desktop Running Windows 7. I dragged and dropped the plugins and it reads a lot of them but Cineform in particular or Neat Video I could not get to work.

Jeff did you get an answer for a step by step on what folders to drag and drop the plugs into? If you see the two screenshots below. The first is of CS6 which is still functioning properly. The second is of Premiere CC. I want to have the same plugins. I want to know the steps of which folders to drop each into. I've copied the files into the Common Files folder but it's still not showing up.

Hi Ann did you copy them to Program Files or Program Files (x86) folder? I have a PC Desktop Running Windows 7. I dragged and dropped the plugins and it reads a lot of them but Cineform in particular or Neat Video I could not get to work.

Oh Thanks, yeah those are already there. The effects are not the problem. The problem is the presets (see screenshots above). See I edit most of my sequences in Cineform. Now that I've upgraded to creative cloud, I cannot render any of those files in my timeline, which leaves me stumped. I can't even apply the Cineform effects, because they won't render without having the preset. There's a missing step somewhere and I can't quite figure out what it is to get the sequence preset to work.

Hi scarolan, since you replied to Rallymax, it appears you did re-run the Cineform installer. If so, it sounds at least in your case the Cineform installer didn't find your new PPro CC installation. This is dependent on the third-party plug-in installer to find the correct folder(s), or to provide an option where the user can choose an installation path.

Each plug-in set can have its own library dependencies (DLLs on Windows), presets, licensing files, etc. If you are familiar with a certain plug-in set, you can try to copy across the files from CS6 to CC. However, it's quite easy with more complicated plug-in sets that you'll miss some files. Even with all the files in place, whether or not the plug-ins work as before depends on how everything connects under the hood. It's like taking a part out of your older model car and trying to use it in a brand new model. The deeper the integration, the more likely something could have changed that necessitates a new "part".

With all the above said: the recommended way to install a plug-in set for PPro CC is to re-run the latest plug-in installer, which needs to support PPro CC.

I didn't rerum the Cineform Installer. I didn't want to go through all my plugins, find installers for them, download them and run them all. I was looking for any "easy" or "Lazy" way" - didn't see anything, so thought the obvious thing to do, would be to just create shortcuts to my CS6 plugins and put them in the appropriate CC plugin folder. Needless to say, this worked for some plugins, but not all - Cineform being an example. After reading your email, I did download the Cineform Installer and ran it, but that didn't work.

I noticed Cineform/GoPro updated their support site today with directions specifically for CC:

..but those instructions didn't work for me. I'll need to spend some time investigating.

Bottom line this is a lot of painful work, that should really be automated. With the move to the cloud this is going to become a much bigger issue then it is today. Really - who wants to go through all this hassle with every release?

You are correct this is a major pain, and I do thank you for posting this link. Unfortunately, even after doing everything step by step it is neither registering Cineform nor Blackmagic plugins at all. That really sucks. I think there's a problem on both sides since things have changed a bit.

Cineform plugs (except for levels) don't work. But they didn't work on CS5.5 and CS6 either - plus cá change.

I'm getting the 'saving metadata' when closing PP error back - I'd forgotten how I'd dealt with that, switched something off in prefs, if I remember (more internet searching!) This wasn't happening before I copied the Cineform directories to their CC locations, so I suspect it's related in some way.

The editing presets and the rendering presets all work fine.

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I've also had good luck with other 3rd party plugins. I created a junction type link from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS6\MediaCore to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore. The default mediacore directory is empty so this works, but I copied across 3rd party directories and files in the individual plugin folders for PP and AE as there are default Adobe files in there which may be different from CS6 to CC.

Note that I also created a junction from Photoshop 64 plugins for CS6 to CC and this also works a treat.

Just thought I'd mention it to show that it can work, I'm chuffed that it does as I was anticipating a system OS install to enable plugins to work and to keep 15-20% of my system SSD free.

If this junction stuff is too complicated (and you don't mind having two sets of the same files or deleting the older versions) just copy the plugin and relevant settings files instead. I assume this will work, although I haven't specifically tested it myself.

You can find free utilities to create junction links for Windows or this can be done via the command line. I forget the name of the utility I use, it works via the context menu. I have found that junction tends to work better than symbolic linking or other types of file 'aliasing' for most of my fumbling about with this solution.

This stuff sounds more complicated than it is, once someone has given the steps to take and you have installed the junction/symbolic linking utility it's just a matter of following the steps.

EDIT - I (re-)found the solution to the

Metadata. Metadata writing in progress (n files pending)

error -

Go to Edit>Preferences>Media and uncheck Write XMP ID to Files on Import (thanks to Jim Simon on this forum for this).